The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-05

venting easy ambuiances tor the wounded
and dying; 1851. surgeons giving their atien.
lions to those ina casualty Of agriculture, Of
commerce or mechanical life, the rushing OF
the ambulance through our streets. not sug-
costing hattie, but quick relief OF some one
fallen in Peaceful industries; 1892, IS ZOO 600
inhabitants i'm this land; 1881, 100000:
Issia, whest, about sO.ooooco bushels; iss7,
the wheat will he about 500. go bushels;
Is62. Pacific coast five weeks from the Allan
tic: lsS7. for three reasons, Union Pacific,
Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific, only
seven days across. Look at the long line OF
churches, universities, asyluins and bousss
with which, during the last few years, this
land has been decorated.
Living soldiers OF the north and south, take
new and special ordination at this season Of
the year, 10 garland the sepulchers OF your
fallen comrades. Nothing is too good for
tl-ir memories. Turn all the private tomls
and the national cemeteries into gardens. We
dead Of Malvern Hill and Cold Harbor and
Murfreesboro and Manassas Junction and
Cumberland Gap and field hospital. receive
these floral offerings Of the living soldiers.
But they shall come again, all the dead
troops We sometimes talk about earthly
military reviews, sIIch as took place in Paris
ia the time Of Marshal Ney, in London in the
time of Wellington and IN our own land, but
tame Win tue titlAl lt-
view, when all the armies Of the ages shall
pass for divine and angelic inspection ST.
John says the armies Of heaven ride ON white
hors,S and l don't know but many Of the old
cavalry horses of earthlyE battle, that
were wounded and out in ser
vice, may have resurrection. It would
be- only fair that, RAISED up and ennobled,
they would he resurrected for the grand
review Of the judgment day. IL would not
take any more power To reconstruct their
bodies than To reconstruct ours. and l should
be very glad TO them among the white
horses OF apocalyptic vision. Hark TO the
trumpet blast, the reveille of the last judg-
ment, They come up All the armies OF all
lands and all centuries, on which ever side
they fought, whether for freedom or despot-
ism, for the right or the wrong. They come.
They come, Darius and Cyrus, and Sennach-
crib, and Joshua. and David, leading forth
the armies of scriptural times; Hannibal and
Hamilcar leading forth the armies of the
Carthaginians; Victor Emmanuel and Carl
baldi leading on the armies of the Italians;
Tamerlane and Gheugis Khan followed by the
armies of Asia: Gustavus Adolphus and
Ptolemy Philopater, and Nerxes and Alex
ander, and Semiramis, and Washington, lead
ing battalion after battalion. The dead
American armies of 1916 and 1872, and
100000 of northern and southern dead
pass on ia review. The 6OoO,0 900 fallen
in Napoleonic battles, the 100000 Ger.
mans fallen in the Thirty Years War,
the lj,oODo00 fallen in the war under Sesos-
| iris; the 2D,OOO, 900 fallen in the wars of Jus
| tinian; the 25.O0O,OO0 fallen in Jewish wars
| the S0.0oD0o0 fallen in the crusades, the lsO, :
| DU,oOO fallen in the wus with Saracens aud
Turks: the :lJ,OOO, 0U.0O0 men estimated u
| have fallen ia battle enough, according "a
/ 81.
| reach clear around the earth AZ times
But we shall have time to see them pass in
review before the throne of judgment-t the
| cavalrymen, the artillerymen, the spcarnen
| the infantry, tue shaT'pshooters, the gunners
the sappers, the miners, the archers the
| skirmshers, men of all colors. of all epaulets
of all standards, of all weaponry, Of all coun
| tries. Let the earth he especially balanced "a
hear their tread Forward Forward Let
the orchestra of the heavenly galleries play th,
grand march, joined by all the iifers, drum
mers and military bands that ever sounded vie
tory defeat at Eylau or Borodinn, at Mara
thon or Thermopyla-, Bunker Hill ar York
| town Solferino or Baaclava, Sedan or Gettys
burg. from the time when Joshua halted astron
omy above Gibeon and A. alon till the last MAI
surrendered To Garnet Wolseley at Tel-el
Kebir. Nations, companies, battalions, ages
centuries and the universe! Forward in tb'
grand review of the Judgment Forward
Gracious and eternal God! On that day ma,
it be found that all marching in tn
right regiment and that carried the RICH
standard, and that we fought under the RICH
commander, all heaven, some on amethystiD'
battlement and others standing in the shin
ing gates, some ON pearly shore and Others OF
turreted heights, giving us the resembling
million voiced cheer: 40 him that over
cometh." Blessed be the Lord God of lsrae
from everlasting to everlasting, and let tn
whole earth he filed with his glory. Amer
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